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Keyword View: assassinate

DVD Review FEAR AND DESIRE (BLU-RAY)

The legendary Stanley Kubrick's first feature film finally makes its way to Blu-ray, after being virtually unseen since it first showed up in theaters back in 1953. The fact that Kino has thrown in a documentary short by Kubrick as well, makes this realease one of the easier purchasing decisions of the year.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - October 29, 2012, 6:58 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: soldiers, peasant, assassinate

DVD Review RED SCORPION (BLU-RAY/DVD COMBO)

Fans of late-1980s action flicks should be quite pleased with Synapse Films impressive restoration and overall treatment of Dolph Lundgren's Red Scorpion, available in a new Blu-Ray/DVD Combo pack carrying an uncensored version that can be had for less than fifteen bucks.

Recommended for all those who appreciate the genre.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - July 8, 2012, 11:27 am - DVD Review
Keywords: dolph lundgren, jack abramoff, joseph zito, red scorpion

DVD Review UP ALL NIGHT WITH ROBERT DOWNEY SR. (ECLIPSE SERIES 33)

Experimental and subversive, but more than that...funny. Robert Downey, Sr.'s output in the 60s and 70s makes for some of the best underground filmmaking of the era.

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - June 25, 2012, 6:35 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: criterion collection, eclipse series, subversive cinema

PR Red Scorpion on Blu-ray and DVD Jun 12

International built-as-hell action star Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables, Rocky IV) is Lt. Nikolai Rachenko, a Soviet Special Forces "killing machine," assigned to infiltrate an African rebel uprising and assassinate their anti-Communist leader. Taken into custody and tortured after the mission fails, he stages a harrowing prison escape. Befriended by an African bushman while on the run, Nikolai discovers he was fighting on the wrong side of this violent conflict all along. Nikolai finds the rebel army once more but, this time, he's on their side and wages bloody war against his former comrades! This action-packed controversial cult classic is now available from Synapse Films in a brand-new 2K high-definition transfer of the uncensored version, containing footage never before seen in the U.S.

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Posted by: News Editor - April 13, 2012, 7:45 am - PR
Keywords: action

DVD Review THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK

The landmark documentary about one of the human rights pioneers of the last century, in a thorough and completely absorbing Criterion package.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 28, 2011, 12:17 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, criterion, milk, lgbt, gay rights

DVD Review MONSOON WEDDING

Even as some grumble that Criterion should focus on bringing lost classics to DVD, it's tough to argue that the underappreciated Monsoon Wedding hasn't benefitted from the company's topflight treatment.

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Posted by: Joel Cunningham - October 13, 2009, 7:06 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: india, bollywood, slumdog millionaire